Compromise

If the executive branch of the government (i.e. the President) can and does pick and choose which laws will be enforced, contrary to the Constitution (Article II Section 3 "...he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, ...), then why would Congress agree to any legislative compromise knowing that the President may not feel obligated to uphold his end of the bargain?

See: we are giving businesses more time to comply

Stellar Wind

Big brother is watching. Thanks to William Binney, "a former NSA code breaker" (cryptographer?), we know more about Stellar Wind, the government's project to collect all US electronic communications.  Did I write "all"?  I meant ALL. That's all phone calls, emails, SMS texts.  All.  Collect it all to sift through it to connect all the dots.  They will know all of your associates.Also see the NYTimes article: the-national-security-agencys-domestic-spying-program.
Why is this on the Op-Ed page and not on the front page?  There will be more on this.

It's even a side plot on HBO's The Newsroom.

very nice quote

Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values. It requires that their proposals be subject to argument, and amenable to reason. I may be opposed to abortion for religious reasons, but if I seek to pass a law banning the practice, I cannot simply point to the teachings of my church or evoke God's will. I have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths, including those with no faith at all.

Barack Obama's keynote at the Call to Renewal's Building a Covenant for a New America conference in Washington, D.C., in 2006